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Famous West Coast Suicides and Shocking Celebrity Deaths

Author : Marques Vickers
Publisher : Marquis Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous West Coast Suicides and Shocking Celebrity Deaths written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death sometimes arrives randomly to those seemingly insulated from risk by virtue of their wealth, celebrity and protective environments. Periodically the world halts in shock and reflection upon the abrupt and sudden headlines of a celebrated personality’s death. Their demise jolts and reinforces our understanding of the fragility and vulnerability of life. This edition chronicles the background stories and detailed locations of some of the most newsworthy, famous and even infamous unexpected sudden passings. The profiles feature self-induced suicides, drug overdoses, celebrity murders, unexplained deaths and even brazen homicides where the perpetrator has taken their own life. The West Coast historically remains a vortex for the unexpected. Understanding the circumstances beyond simple summary reporting often clarifies the motivations behind each unfortunately and often desperate act. The contents are divided into four sectional categories including: FAMOUS SUICIDES Actress Peg Entwistle’s leap from the Hollywood sign, Oil swindler C. C. Julian, Valhalla Cemetery savior John E. Osborne Sr., Actor Ross Alexander, Actresses Lupe Velez and Carol Landis, Superman actor George Reeves, Actresses Marilyn Monroe and Pier Angeli, Actors Pete Duel and Freddie Prinze, Punk Rocker Darby Crash, San Francisco assassin Dan White, Seattle judge Gary Little, Singer Del Shannon, Actor Herve Villechaize, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Actor Hugh O’Connor, Model Margaux Hemingway, Heaven’s Gate cult mass poisoning, Actor Brian Keith, Punk Rocker Dee Dee Ramone, Film Director Tony Scott, Right-to-Die Advocate Brittany Maynard, Comedian Robin Williams, Rock keyboardist Keith Emerson and Actor Verne Troyer. SHOCKING ABRUPT CELEBRITY DEATHS President Warren Harding, Evangelist Sister Aimee Semple-McPherson, Actor James Dean’s fatal car collision, Soul singer Sam Cooke, Comedian Lenny Bruce, Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, Actor Roman Novarro, Rock singer Janis Joplin and actor John Belushi’s drug overdoses, Actress Dominique Dunne’s strangulation, Beach Boy Dennis Wilson’s drowning, Marvin Gaye’s domestic shooting, Actress Rebecca Schaeffer’s stalker killing, Rock Promoter Bill Graham’s helicopter crash, Actor River Phoenix’s drug overdose, Jockey Ron Hansen’s mysterious drowning, Actor Haing Ngor’s killing, Sublime’s Bradley Nowell’s drug overdose, Revenge shooting of Notorious B. I. G., Rock singer Layne Staley, Singers Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston’s drug overdose, Paul Walker’s street racing crash and Singer George Michael’s outing and premature death. INFAMOUS MURDER SUICIDES Brides of Christ cult, LAPD Captain Walter Auble, Ned Doheny and Hugh Plunkett, Teenage Orcutt California Freeway sniper, Newhall California Highway Patrol shootout, Jim Jones and the People’s Temple, Richard Trenton Chase the Vampire Killer, Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, Lynwood Jim Drake, 101 California Building Massacre, Actor Phil Hartman, Seattle Bus Shooting on Infamous Aurora Bridge, Kyle Huff and the Capitol Hill shooting, John Williams the man of a thousand identities, Bruce Pardo’s Christmas Eve firestorm, Portland’s The Zone nightclub massacre, Jed Waits obsession killing, Publicist Ronni Chasen midnight slaying, Speedfreak mass killing and burial grounds, Seattle’s Café Racer coffee house killings, Survivalist Peter Keller’s family murder, Actor Johnny Lewis’ outburst, Marysville-Pilchuck cafeteria shooting and the vindictive Isla Vista shooting spree rampage of Elliot Roger REPUTED SUICIDE LOCATIONS Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Cecil Hotel Los Angeles, Vista Point Bridge Portland, Aurora Bridge Seattle and the USS Hornet

Notorious West Coast Celebrity Deaths and Suicides

Author : Vickers Marques (author)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781005983840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (838 download)

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Death in California

Author : David Kulczyk
Publisher : Craven Street Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Death in California written by David Kulczyk and published by Craven Street Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With details about grim and grisly fatalities, this history of California's arcane deaths encompasses the murders and accidents that at one time shocked the West Coast. The stories of hangings, gun accidents, suicides, crashes, and overdoses of both the famous and obscure offer a bizarre and lighthearted, if sometimes perverse, glimpse into the Golden State's strange past. From the tragic tale of 14 tourists swept to their deaths over Vernal Fall in pastoral Yosemite National Park and the gritty details of Bob ""Bear"" Hite overdosing on heroin in a seedy Hollywood nightclub to the shocking chronicle of a 10-ton jet crashing into a Bay Area kitchen, this zany collection is delightfully weird and enthrallingly human.

Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey

Author : Jesse P. Pollack & Mark Moran
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467153001
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey written by Jesse P. Pollack & Mark Moran and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police cover up ran rampant, and the case went unsolved - along with the murders of several other young women.

Pioneering Death

Author : Peter Boag
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749997
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Pioneering Death written by Peter Boag and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited. In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. While pioneer families celebrated and memorialized founders of western white settler society, their children faced a present and future in frightening decline. Connecting a fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag uncovers how Loyd's violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West.

West Coast Creepy Buildings: Their Storied Past

Author : Marques Vickers
Publisher : Marquis Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Coast Creepy Buildings: Their Storied Past written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition showcases the effects and consequences of human depravity, frailty and criminal activity. The showcased and photographed remaining structures generally appear nondescript and ordinary, masking their significance and infamy. Throughout the West Coast, these commonplace buildings silently testify to events involving violence and individuals whose acts have scarred others, society and sometimes simply themselves. Their stories remain compelling evidence towards the fragility of the human experience and lives severed abruptly. Once you’ve absorbed the history behind each building, you will never view them with indifference again. Paranormal activity within their confines is commonly reported. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Famous Murders Cases: 101 California Building, Ashkenaz Club, Trailside Killer, Vampire Killer, Ewell Family, Father Eric Freed, Golden Dragon Restaurant, Children of Thunder, Henry’s Pub, Polly Klaas Kidnapping, Rex Allen Krebs, Marin Barbeque, Artie Mitchell, Marin County Courthouse, Oikos University, Dorothea Puente, Ramon Salcido, Unabomber, Weston Family, George Moscone and Harvey Milk, Diane Whipple Mauling and the Zebra Murders. Celebrity Suicides and Shocking Deaths: SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi, Actor Fatty Arbuckle Scandal, President Warren Harding, Sublime’s Bradley Nowell and Comedian Robin Williams, Bizarre Buildings: Institute for Fallen Women, CIA’s Sex and LSD Playhouse, Condor Club’s Killer Piano, Ghost Ticket Taker, Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire, Patty Hearst Kidnapping Buildings, Peoples Temple Headquarters, Moss Beach Distillery and the Nazi Whittier Mansion. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Famous Murders Cases: Black Dahlia, Nicole Brown-Simpson, Vincent Brothers Family, Cleveland Elementary School, Ned Doheny, Actress Dominique Dunne, Barbara Finch, Singer Marvin Gaye, Heaven’s Gate Cult, Hillside Stranglers, Golden State Killer, Barbara Graham, Phil Hartman, Charles Manson Cult, Menendez Couple, Meridian Salon, Susan Berman, Sal Mineo, Haing Ngor, Ramon Navarro, Elliot Rodger, San Diego State Engineering Department, Santana High School, Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, Gangster Bugsy Siegel, Music Producer Phil Spector, Johnny Stompanato, Dorothy Stratten, Thompson Couple, Van Cleef & Arpels and Wonderland Gang. Celebrity Suicides and Shocking Deaths: Comedian John Belushi, Singer Sam Cooke, Darby Crash, Actor Pete Duel, Musician Keith Emerson, Janis Joplin, Margaux Hemmingway, Whitney Houston, Actress Carol Landis, Actor Johnny Lewis, Marilyn Monroe, River Phoenix, Comedian Freddie Prinze, DeeDee Ramone, Superman George Reeves, Singer Del Shannon, Actor Verne Troyer and Actor Herve Villechaize. Bizarre Buildings: Cecil Hotel, and Will Rogers State Park Men’s Restroom, OREGON Famous Murder Cases and Suicides Franck Akin, Ashley Benson, Nancy Bergeson, Bowden Bombed Residence, Jerry Brudos, Dark Stranger Serial Killer, Pioneer Murder, Veronica Dolan, Oregon Prison Director Michael Francke, Michele Dee Gate’s Legacy, Diane Hank, Brittany Maynard’s Assisted Suicide, Lloyolla Miller, Tim Moreau, Roma Ollison and The Zone Nightclub shooting. Bizarre Buildings Crime Boss Jim Elkins Hangout, Erickson’s Saloon, Golden West Hotel, Kell’s Irish Pub, Kelly’s Olympian Bar, White Eagle Saloon, Merchants Hotel, The Open Door Buildings and Oregon State Hospital. WASHINGTON Famous Murder Cases and Suicides Jack Bird, Brides of Christ Founder, Ted Bundy, Café Racer, Ann Marie Burr, Maurice Clemmons, Singer Kurt Cobain, James Elledge, John Fiori, Charles Goldmark Family, Teresa Butz, Capital Hill Massacre, Little Willie John, Judge Gary Little, Lee Boyd Malvo, John Considine, Edwin Pratt, Rafay Family, Red Barn Tavern, Green River Killer, Seattle Pacific University, Layne Staley, Wah Nee Gambling Club, Justice Tom Wales, Radio Activist Mike Webb and Wilson Family. Bizarre Buildings Alfred’s Café, Lou Graham Block, People’s Theatre and G. O. Guy’s Drugstore,

TWISTED TOUR GUIDE TO PORTLAND AND SALEM

Author : Marques Vickers
Publisher : Marquis Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book TWISTED TOUR GUIDE TO PORTLAND AND SALEM written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoid The Tourist Herds. What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades? This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don’t want to talk about anymore…the same places people once couldn’t stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery. Each visitation site in this guide is accompanied by a story. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. The profiled cast of characters feature saints and sinners (with emphasis towards the latter). Notorious crimes, murders, accidental deaths, suicides, kidnappings, vice and scandal are captivating human interest tales. The photography from each profile showcases the precise location where each event occurred. The scenes can seem ordinary, weird and/or sometimes very revealing towards clarifying the background behind events. If you’re seeking an alternative to conventional tourism, this Twisted Tourist Guide is ideal. Each directory accommodates the restless traveler and even resident looking for something unique and different. Historic Buildings with Paranormal Haunting: Witches Castle, Merchant’s Hotel, Kelly’s Olympian, White Eagle Saloon, Kell’s Irish Restaurant, Hollywood Theatre Portland Scandals: The Open Door and the Great Vice Crusade of 1896, Unsuccessful Sexual Set-Up of Mayor Harry Lane, Richard’s Restaurant, Vice Clique Gay Scandal of 1912, Ku Klux Klan’s infiltration, Mayoral Election of 1917, Radio’s Robert Gordon Duncan, Schneiderman’s Music Hall, Michael Grave’s Flawed Portland Building Elicit Commerce: Opium Trade, Court of Death, Shanghai Tunnels, Gambling Dens, Prohibition, Read Hotel, Frank Kodat Crime Networt, Historic Prostitution Outlets, The Desert Room, Yam Yam’s BBQ Historic Events: Great Fires of 1872-1973, Emma Goldman’s 1915 Lecture, Hoovervilles at Sullivan’s Gulch, Multnomah Aerial Showcase, Catastrophe at Vanport, Brittany Maynard’s Assisted Suicide Institutions with Storied Pasts: Huber’s Café, The Boneyard, Society Hotel, Lone Fir Cemetery, Dan and Louis Oyster Bar, Erickson’s Saloon, Washington Hotel, Lownsdale Square Public Bathroom, Crystal Ballroom, Golden West Hotel, Vista Bridge, Crystal Hotel, Dude Ranch, Harbor Club, Tel and Tel Tavern, Club Continental Baths, Mary’s Club Legendary Personalities: Danford Balch, Liverpool Lil, Boneyard Mary, Carrie Bradley, Anne Jeanne Tingry Le-Coz, Alice Oberle, Joseph Bunko Kelley, Kate Ann Williams, Theodore Berthus Kruses, Gus Erickson, Fred Fritz Jr., Mysterious Billy Smith, Dr. Marie Equi, Henry Lewis Pittock, Mayor George Baker, Henry Albers, Journalists John Reed and Louis Bryant, Nate Zusman, Al Winter, Mayor Dorothy McCullough, Big Jim Elkins, Roma Ollison, Hotelier Gordon Sondland Notorious Murders Reynolds’s Homewrecker Shooting, Dark Strangler Serial Killer, Contract Killing of Frank Akin, 1946 Willamette Floating Torso, Bowden Bombing, Killing Under St. John’s Bridge, Career Criminal Frank Oliver Payne, Diane Hank Abduction, Forest Park Slayings, Weeks Family Massacre, Veronica Dolan’s Christmas Eve slaying, Michele Dee Gate’s Saga of Death, Lloyolla Miller’s savage axing, Beating Death of Mulugeta Seraw, Tim Moreau and the Counterfeit Ticketing Ring, Serial Killer Scott William Cox, Homer Lee Jackson’s Prostitution Murders, The Zone’s Shooting Rampage, Federal Public Defender Nancy Bergeson’s Murder, Abduction of Kyron Horman, Escort Ashley Benson Salem Pioneer Murder of Daniel Delaney, Salem Hanging Grounds, Political Fixer Jonathan Bourne and 40 days of legislative debauchery, Fairview Training Center, Elsinore Theatre, Mass Poisoning at the Oregon State Hospital, Serial Killer Richard Marquette, Fetish Killer Jerry Brudos, Oregon State Police Chief Holly Holcomb Murder, Serial Killer William Scott Smith, Oregon Prison Director Michael Francke’s Bizarre Killing

You Are Psychic

Author : Char Margolis
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 1250805058
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book You Are Psychic written by Char Margolis and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Char is the mentor we all deserve. In You Are Psychic she skillfully and compassionately helps you evolve those little whispers in the back of your mind into full-blown psychic intuition.” —Chris Colfer,#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Land of Stories series and award-winning actor For the first time ever, America’s most beloved psychic Char Margolis shares the secret to tapping into your own psychic ability. Margolis has left clients and audiences awestruck and transformed countless lives with her profound psychic abilities, but never before has she shared how readers can access these abilities themselves. In her previous book The Universe is Calling You, Margolis shared how we can all tap into the vast energy of the universe, but now, in You Are Psychic, she opens another dimension of wisdom, teaching readers how to connect with the universal energy in a new way in order to tap into their own psychic strength. In seven simple, yet profound steps Margolis will help you discover and embrace your natural psychic abilities, connect with powerful positive energy, and protect your own energy at the same time. You Are Psychic is an invitation to a whole new way of being that will allow you to unleash the magic within.

I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

Author : Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0593193539
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

TWISTED TOUR GUIDE TO LOS ANGELES

Author : Marques Vickers
Publisher : Marquis Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book TWISTED TOUR GUIDE TO LOS ANGELES written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoid The Tourist Herds. What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades? This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don’t want to talk about anymore…the same places people once couldn’t stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery. Each visitation site in this guide is accompanied by a story. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. The profiled cast of characters feature saints and sinners (with emphasis towards the latter). Notorious crimes, murders, accidental deaths, suicides, kidnappings, vice and scandal are captivating human interest tales. The photography from each profile showcases the precise location where each event occurred. The scenes can seem ordinary, weird and/or sometimes very revealing towards clarifying the background behind events. If you’re seeking an alternative to conventional tourism, this Twisted Tourist Guide is ideal. Each directory accommodates the restless traveler and even resident looking for something unique and different. Scandals: Sister Aimee Semple’s disappearance, Zoot Suit riots, Howard Hughes’ collisions, George Michael sex sting, Dr. Lanterman’s abortions, Pio Pico shortsighted swap, Rodney King beating, Roman Polanski’s flight from justice and Julian Oil, Valhalla Cemetery and Girard Swindles Famous Homicides and Killers: Billionaire Boys Club, Barbara Graham, Black Dahlia, Bonnie Lee Bakely, Edward Allaway, Police Captain Walter Auble, Charles Crawford, Christian Brando, Dominique Dunne, Dr. Raymond Finch, Efren Saldivar, Ennis Cosby, Geneva Ellroy, Haing Ngor, Johnny Stompanato, Mickey and Trudy Thompson, Newhall CHP Shootout, Nicole Brown-Simpson, SLA Fuselage, Phil Spector, Ramon Novarro, Rebecca Schaeffer, Ronni Chasen, Sal Mineo, Sam Cooke, Susan Berman, Ted Healy, North Hollywood Bank of America Heist, Van Cleef & Arpels Hostage Standoff, William Desmond Taylor and the Wonderland massacres Serial Killers: Charles Manson, Golden State Killer, Richard Ramirez and Hillside Stranger Murder-Suicides: Dorothy Stratten, Johnny Lewis, Ned Doheny and Phil Hartman Assassinations and Contract Murders: Bugsy Siegel, Notorious B.I.G., Raymond Washington, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Vic Weiss Celebrity Suicides and Locations: Brian Keith, Carol Landis, Hotel Cecil, Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge, Darby Crash, DeeDee Ramone, Del Shannon, Don Cornelius, Freddie Prinze, George Reeve, Herve Villechaize, Hugh O’Connor, Keith Emerson, Lupe Velez, Margaux Hemmingway, Peg Entwistle, Pete Duel, Pier Angeli, Ross Alexander, Tony Scott and Verne Troyer Shocking Celebrity Deaths and Overdoses: Dennis Wilson, Lenny Bruce, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Michael Jackson, Paul Walker, River Phoenix and Whitney Houston Prostitution and Renowned Madams: Lee Frances, Hollywood Love Market, Heidi Fleiss, Calle de los Negroes and Hugh Grant’s Indiscretion

African American Music

Author : Mellonee V. Burnim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317934431
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book African American Music written by Mellonee V. Burnim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

Jazz and Death

Author : Frederick J. Spencer, M.D.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469234
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Jazz and Death written by Frederick J. Spencer, M.D. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer, M.D., conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies divulge the way many musical virtuosos really died. An essential reference source, Jazz and Death strives to correct misinformation and set the story straight. Reviewing the medical records of such jazz icons as Scott Joplin, James Reese Europe, Bennie Moten, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Wardell Gray, and Ronnie Scott, the book spans decades, styles, and causes of death. Divided into disease categories, it covers such illnesses as ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), which killed Charlie Mingus, and tuberculosis, which caused the deaths of Chick Webb, Charlie Christian, Bubber Miley, Jimmy Blanton, and Fats Navarro. It notes the significance of dental disease in affecting a musician's embouchure and livelihood, as happened with Joe “King” Oliver. A discussion of Art Tatum's visual impairment leads to discoveries in the pathology of what blinded Lennie Tristano. Heavy drinking, even during Prohibition, was the norm in the clubs of New Orleans and Kansas City and in the ballrooms of Chicago and New York. Too often, the musical scene demanded that those who play jazz be “jazzed.” After World War II, as heroin addiction became the hallmark of revolution, talented bebop artists suffered long absences from the bandstand. Many did jail time, and others succumbed to the ravages of “horse.” With Jazz and Death, the causes behind the great jazz funerals may no longer be misconstrued. Its clinical and morbidly entertaining approach creates an invaluable compendium for jazz fans and scholars alike.

West Coast Review of Books

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Coast Review of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love, Sex, Death and Words

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848312695
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Love, Sex, Death and Words written by John Sutherland and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious artefacts that literature has to offer. Find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce, which great literary love affair was brought to a tragic end on 11 February 1963 and why Roy Campbell punched Stephen Spender on the nose on 14 April 1949 in this sumptuous voyage through the highs and lows of literature's bejewelled past.

Gordon Welchman

Author : Joel Greenberg
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473834635
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Gordon Welchman written by Joel Greenberg and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enigma’s ‘forgotten genius’ . . . [the] story of Alan Turing’s spymaster boss who led the team that cracked Hitler’s WWII codes” (Daily Mail). The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key participants. Here at last is a book that allows some of them to speak for the first time. Gordon Welchman was one of the Park’s most important figures. Like Alan Turing, his pioneering work was fundamental to the success of Bletchley Park and helped pave the way for the birth of the digital age. Yet, his story is largely unknown to many. His book, The Hut Six Story, was the first to reveal not only how they broke the codes, but how it was done on an industrial scale. Its publication created such a stir in GCHQ and the NSA that Welchman was forbidden to discuss the book or his wartime work with the media. In order to finally set the record straight, Bletchley Park historian and tour guide Joel Greenberg has drawn on Welchman’s personal papers and correspondence with wartime colleagues that lay undisturbed in his son’s loft for many years. Packed with fascinating new insights, including Welchman’s thoughts on key Bletchley figures and the development of the bombe machine, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the clandestine activities at Bletchley Park. “A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley’s and Britain’s lost heroes.” —Michael Smith “Reveals a man equally as fascinating equally as important as Turing, and tells us even more about what went on in this most secret of establishments during the war years.” —Books Monthly

Africana

Author : Anthony Appiah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195170555
Total Pages : 3951 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Africana written by Anthony Appiah and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 3951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids, to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth.

Death and the Humanities

Author : Sharon Scholl
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750476
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Death and the Humanities by : Sharon Scholl

Download or read book Death and the Humanities written by Sharon Scholl and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the variety of treatments of the theme of death in the works of painters, sculptors, novelists, poets, and composers.